I've said it since September 2017, I would never have joined if I had inspected the site prior to joining. Reality is the top of every social media site is shit, we are just reaching normal status with what we have trending. A simple fix would be to just get rid of trending and hot altogether.
It all comes down to who loses money with changes, those who can make the changes or those who want them. Seems the same people who have always made money here are still making money here. There just isn't easy bid-bot buys like many built their accounts with, now things are capped for buyers. It was not like that when I first arrived but many who took advantage at that point are now pro #nobidbot tagging their feeds.
My suggestion leads to everyone earning more. It's a proven business model. These folks seem to prefer to earn thousands over millions though. The history is all in the blockchain.
I don't see greed. I see opportunity, trapped in a comfort zone. Entrepreneurs afraid to make the next move. Arts and entertainment combined with the information age and advertising generates billions yearly. These folks only know crypto, tech, and money, so we can't expect them to realize the true potential, because it's not their field of expertise.
The business model caters only to amateurs with high hopes but doesn't perform in the long run. Established folks in this industry are already set up to earn, so they snicker at this approach here with purchasing fake reward in order to earn. The entire view/like buying strategy killed the potential of established networks already, so this method is already behind the times. Tried, tested and failed. Those pushing this approach are amateurs and never studied what works and what doesn't. Copycat artists. Can't think outside the box.
True, what Steemit fails to have, which hurts us the most, is some form of marketing. @ned didn't do his job from the gate and @jerrybanfield made the place a laughing stock. We need to recover from these two fuck-ups and get some real marketing done.
@ned should be using his stake and that of @steemit to push good content up and bad content down.
It's too early for marketing. The place isn't ready for millions of contributing members.
The current internal advertising system (boosting posts to trending) only has 20-30 slots. If there were millions of people playing this game, their posts would last an hour tops on the leader board, then the slots would become so expensive, nobody would be able to afford it, or want to pay for it.
Jerry wasn't marketing Steemit, he was marketing himself, using his audience and numbers to help push him up the witness ranks. Many of the people who came because of him were not successful, because of him.
Ned isn't the enemy. He just needs to put the foot down.
I'd love to see more than 40 people paying to be at the top of trending. It is the same people every time, let them pay MORE. If it is all about "advertising" let them pay more to play.
I know Jerry wasn't marketing "Steemit" but that would have been a great use of ninja mined Steem to bury that trash.
This is like anywhere else, there are investors and platform users. I wonder what would happen if the system just paid out SBD on a post and all steem had to be bought and turned into Steem Power.
I change daily between this place is a madhouse to it is a funhouse, or I am so "mad" I find it fun.
People have been saying that for many months, so why not fix it in a way where everyone makes money?
I've said it since September 2017, I would never have joined if I had inspected the site prior to joining. Reality is the top of every social media site is shit, we are just reaching normal status with what we have trending. A simple fix would be to just get rid of trending and hot altogether.
It all comes down to who loses money with changes, those who can make the changes or those who want them. Seems the same people who have always made money here are still making money here. There just isn't easy bid-bot buys like many built their accounts with, now things are capped for buyers. It was not like that when I first arrived but many who took advantage at that point are now pro #nobidbot tagging their feeds.
The history is all in the blockchain.
My suggestion leads to everyone earning more. It's a proven business model. These folks seem to prefer to earn thousands over millions though. The history is all in the blockchain.
Indeed, but greed rules the hen house here.
They can't seem to see the whole picture with their greed blinders on.
I don't see greed. I see opportunity, trapped in a comfort zone. Entrepreneurs afraid to make the next move. Arts and entertainment combined with the information age and advertising generates billions yearly. These folks only know crypto, tech, and money, so we can't expect them to realize the true potential, because it's not their field of expertise.
The business model caters only to amateurs with high hopes but doesn't perform in the long run. Established folks in this industry are already set up to earn, so they snicker at this approach here with purchasing fake reward in order to earn. The entire view/like buying strategy killed the potential of established networks already, so this method is already behind the times. Tried, tested and failed. Those pushing this approach are amateurs and never studied what works and what doesn't. Copycat artists. Can't think outside the box.
True, what Steemit fails to have, which hurts us the most, is some form of marketing. @ned didn't do his job from the gate and @jerrybanfield made the place a laughing stock. We need to recover from these two fuck-ups and get some real marketing done.
@ned should be using his stake and that of @steemit to push good content up and bad content down.
It's too early for marketing. The place isn't ready for millions of contributing members.
The current internal advertising system (boosting posts to trending) only has 20-30 slots. If there were millions of people playing this game, their posts would last an hour tops on the leader board, then the slots would become so expensive, nobody would be able to afford it, or want to pay for it.
Jerry wasn't marketing Steemit, he was marketing himself, using his audience and numbers to help push him up the witness ranks. Many of the people who came because of him were not successful, because of him.
Ned isn't the enemy. He just needs to put the foot down.
I'd love to see more than 40 people paying to be at the top of trending. It is the same people every time, let them pay MORE. If it is all about "advertising" let them pay more to play.
I know Jerry wasn't marketing "Steemit" but that would have been a great use of ninja mined Steem to bury that trash.
This is like anywhere else, there are investors and platform users. I wonder what would happen if the system just paid out SBD on a post and all steem had to be bought and turned into Steem Power.
I change daily between this place is a madhouse to it is a funhouse, or I am so "mad" I find it fun.
BTW, I need my pants back, kool-aid has worn off.